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范畴:人与自然 主题:人与动物 体裁:说明文 难度:★★★ 建议用时:7分钟 评价:/10
请认真阅读下面短文,在横线上填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Vultures(秃鹫) are large birds. They 1. (be) big and sometimes they look clumsy. They are not very pretty 2. (bird). Vultures do not have feathers on 3. (they) heads.
Many people do not like vultures because they are not beautiful birds. They are 4. (real) ugly. Besides, people do not like them 5. of what they eat. Vultures eat dead animals. Vultures will eat a dead animal even if it may 6. (die) of an illness. Some people have some ideas about vultures. They think vultures are bad and 7. (use) birds. In fact, their ideas are wrong. Actually, vultures do an important job 8. people. Vultures help 9. (clean) up nature's mess. The mess is bad for people's health because it can make people and other animals sick. Vultures eat the mess. It shows that vultures do 10. good thing for people. Vultures are special birds, aren't they?

短文填空
本文介绍了秃鹫。
1. are 考查时态和主谓一致。联系上下文可知，本句时态为一般现在时，且主语They是复数，故此处填are。
2. birds 考查名词单复数。根据They are可知，此处填bird的复数形式birds。
3. their 考查代词。空后heads为名词，要用形容词性物主代词修饰。
4. really 考查副词。修饰形容词ugly要用副词。
5. because 考查固定搭配。because of意为“由于”。
6. die 考查动词。情态动词may后面用动词原形。
7. useless 考查形容词。此处要用形容词修饰空后的名词birds。再结合空前的bad可知，所缺的词是useless，意为“没有用的”。
8. for 考查介词。此处指秃鹫为人们做着一项重要的工作。表示“为了”要用介词for。
9. (to) clean 考查动词不定式。help (to) do sth.意为“帮忙做某事”。
10. a 考查冠词。根据上文可知，秃鹫为人们做了一件好事情，且good为发音以辅音音素开头的单词，故填不定冠词a。